Word: musician
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play, The Red Devil Battery Sign, opening on Broadway in August, Williams had an excuse for his revels. Last week he got together with the cast at the first rehearsal. Written two years ago while Williams was in Tangier, Battery Sign casts Anthony Quinn as a Mexican street musician, Katy Jurado as his wife and Claire Bloom as his downtown diversion. "I have never had a part before that was so me," proclaimed Quinn, who will be making his first Broadway appearance in 14 years. Like Williams, Quinn had a few battle scars from the previous evening. "I got bitten...
...circle endlessly. In the first cut on the album (Similar Limits), all three, Brown, Altena and Bennik cut loose from each other and race off in different directions. The result is unfathomable. The density of discord is not in itself expresssve and only masks the individual efforts of each musician. In 'Improvisation' however, Brown opens alone, unaccompanied and gradually builds on a simple theme until at a peak of intensity, drums and bass enter flying. Brown rides on top, climbing all over the tonal scale in his musical fury. Then as suddenly as they began, Altena and Bennik stop...
...career was at its peak. Yet, reversing the ambition of those opera singers who long to perform in nightclubs, Flack yearned for her classical roots. "One of the hassles of being a black female musician," she says, "is that people are always backing you into a corner and telling you to sing soul. I'm a serious artist. I feel a kinship with people like Arthur Rubinstein and Glenn Gould. If I can't play Bartok when I want to play...
...Democratic Party when a Paul Newman or a Marlo Thomas decides to make a political statement," he says. "It's as if a political statement by someone in the arts is bogus or without intellectual foundation. If I leave Harvard and decide I want to be a musician, suddenly any political ideas I have will be suspect. People will see me as a musician, not someone who's studied government at Harvard...
...during this period too that Cher, with no help from anyone but a doctor she called, saved a man's life (TIME, March 3). Last September she attended a party at Millionaire-Weirdo Ken Moss's with a couple of musician friends, where what they thought was cocaine was free for the snorting. It turned out to be heroin. One man, Robbie Mclntosh, a drummer, died of the stuff. But Cher (as she testified last month before a grand jury that indicted Moss for murder) took Alan Gorrie, a bass player, home with her and kept him walking...